Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 passed into U. S. history one January afternoon in 1936, when Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts began reading the majority Supreme Court decision in U. S. v. Butler et al., receivers of Hoosac Mills Corp. The AAA of 1938 has yet to reach the Supreme Court. But last week two of the men most prominently identified with it set out to argue its case before the tribunal of public opinion. One demanded an outright conviction for failure, the other appealed for a suspended sentence...
...covered wagon slogging over the plains, it is the reader who suffers most. This beginning goes way back to the heroine's girlhood in Missouri; and although the Civil War figures in her adolescence, the only valid purpose in these tedious chapters is to let the heroine reach a marriageable age before she goes West. When she marries an ambitious farmer and goes to the San Joaquin Valley to settle down, the tale begins to move...
When the steel industry announced 5~7% price cuts on most of its important products last June, ingot production stood at 28% of capacity. Since then it has increased steadily, reached 47.3%, highest it has been since last October. Whereas the industry could formerly break even at 45% with the old prices, it must now, however, produce at about 55 or 60% to stay out of the red. In an attempt to reach the break-even mark. U. S. Steel Corp. last week suddenly slashed steel rail prices for 1938's fourth quarter $2.50 per ton, bringing them into...
...meeting of President Hopkins and the 12 college trustees early in October is expected to reach a decision on the fate of the 100 year-old paper, which has been fighting college interference since the censorship question first arose last...
Although K. P. L. & G.'s application stressed the communities its new line would serve, the company hopes to find a pot of gold at the end of its modest rainbow. The extremity of the projected line will reach the Mesabi Iron Range, richest in the U. S., whose ores now go to the blast furnaces of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania. However, Mesabi has also much low-grade ore which has not been considered worth shipping out for smelting. K. P. L. & G. hopes by bringing a low-priced fuel to the site of Mesabi's low-grade...